Scott Brown becomes first U.S. Senate candidate in nation to run ad on immigration crisis

6:00 AM EDT Jul 28, 2014
James Pindell
wmur.com



MANCHESTER, N.H. —Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown is set to become the first U.S. Senate candidate in the country to air a television ad over the immigration crisis on the nation's southern border.

The 30-second ad that is scheduled to air this week on WMUR-TV and on cable stations in the state begins with Brown saying that Americans must go through security when they “get on a plane, enter a government building or attend a ballgame. But folks who come here illegally just walk across the border."

This ad, his fifth this election cycle, is a departure from his earlier ones in that it focuses entirely on one issue and doesn't address any piece of his biography. His potential opponent, Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen, has used all of her ads to focus on issues and not her biography, hoping that the state's voters are already familiar with her in her five previous statewide runs.

This Brown ad, though, could be very smart politics. With a little over a month before the general election, few issues stir up the Republican base in New Hampshire like immigration. With this ad he is able to appeal to the party's base, which may not agree with him on much, but polls show he is the strong frontrunner.

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